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1. Letter from Baker, James Roy d'Arcy

   a little time in which to catch up on my letter writing. If the stars were shining, I would have to be out ... I guess, but somehow I just can't put my mind to it at present. I guess by the time you have got my ... to rush everything so much you can't take your time and think, you have to cram two hours work ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 2:16pm

2. Letter from Beck, John Jackson

   We ordered breakfast for 8 (usually at 8.30) in order to catch the 8.45 car- which eventually left at ... Briques yet another on to Boulogne. Which we reached by 10.45. A lot of Americans on board. My first time ... we got a ride to Pot de Briques in a quarter of the time the car would have taken. However we had to ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 2:28am

3. Letter from Balfour, James Stevenson

   go about it. Freddie went to London and saw Colonel Obed-Smith, Canadian Emigration agent, who ... and I was up several times. Our billet was in a park and a large country house owned by some wealthy ... gent. There were several Canadians in the school and we passed the time very enjoyable. Reg. Stone, do ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 1:41am

4. Letter from MacKay, Gordon Rae

   be very long ere I can as it seems to be getting stronger all the time. They have begun the torture ... had for some time. I am sorry you are building so much on my being home soon for I doubt now if I get ... it will catch anyone as there are rarely ever more than one man in a batt of the same name & ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 1:04pm

5. Letter from Sudbury, John P.

   In camp Sat. Aug 19th 1916 My dearest Mother Just a short one this time. I've been to see ... first time I met one of his men who had come from the fight sick, and had been sent, when better, to ... usual for us to catch the train. We found no train and no one waiting so we half concluded it had gone. ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 2:07pm

6. Letter from Trotter, Bernard Freeman

   and dress of everybody who came in until supper-time. It was a real supper, too- delicious ham and ... weekly Times; and after supper Stevens approached him to enquire the way to the station, thinking that ... French; while I did my best to catch on to the conversation and pick up what phrases I could. We were ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 2:18pm

7. Letter from Ellis, Hadden William

   but I think there will be a move either east or west before a months time. I was going to get you ... summer some place. Something that would give her a change and a good time. I hope Victor's chen[?] ... gets along alright. You spoke about Caspell well he was to catch the Seven O'clock train that ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 10:48am

8. Letter from Evans, Stanley William

   be so close because we have been at it so long. Boy I have waited a long time to get home lets hope ... a letter since I wrote last but I think I have plenty to catch up with don’t you I told you I was turning ... is a funny thing after all this time I still long for my one and only wife. Well my love I must ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:14pm

9. Letter from Platt, Henry Errol Beauchamp

   beneficial. Every battalion in the Brigade is busy at a time like this strafing every other battalion. You go ... out of trenches having had a pretty stiff time of it and still leaving things in a bit of a mess, and ... hurriedly to catch the boat. Yours ever lovingly Errol. Army WWI Europe France Letter from soldier 1915 ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:17pm

10. Letter from Van Allen, Austin Newton

    a wild time overseas with a Scottish Winnipeg unit called the Camerons. I couldn't find the address ... of Mrs Caldwell's cousins before I left—I guess I should have made a note of it at the time. Our ... after all. That was awfully food of Zella to buy Traer a bike & I can just imagine the grand times ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 2:38pm